• Veraxus
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    238 months ago

    If it is publicly accessible, then yes, they scrape the data.

    This is literally how search engines have worked since damn near the inception of the internet.

      • @SacrificedBeans
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        128 months ago

        Robots.txt is a compliance standard afaik, more like an advisory guide. It cannot enforce bans on scrapers, it sets some polite boundaries for the website.

      • @kaffiene
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        48 months ago

        There was, and still is